Karen refuses to ask Rob for help

Karen refuses to ask Rob for help
Karen refuses to ask Rob for help (Image credit: BBC)

The boiler is still broken at the Hollins' house. Karen refuses to ask Rob to fix it and so Immie asks Jack - but Jack makes matters worse. Karen settles for a night under blankets but Immie isn't having it. She goes to stay at her friend's while Karen sits alone in the cold. Elaine's annoying sister Emma-Jane turns up asking to spend some time with Elaine. They go out for dinner and drunken Emma-Jane accuses Elaine of having an affair with her husband. Elaine strongly denies this and Emma-Jane reveals her husband is always asking why she can't be more like Elaine; heaven knows why! Emma-Jane can't understand why Elaine isn't jealous of her life and falls over inebriated. Also, Danny wants to run a marathon in memory of his brother Jay who died in a hit and run. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.